Medical
Remains found believed to be woman who was dumpster diving
While official identification is pending with the medical examiner, police say they have reason to be confident that the remains are indeed Cox's. Cox's family members say that it was not uncommon for her to collect items from local dumpsters. [Full Article...]
Bernie Sanders blasts Pete Buttigieg for taking billionaire bucks
Former vice president Joe Biden won six and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar won one. Troy Price, chair of the Iowa Democratic Party , is calling for an investigation into what took place during the disastrous caucuses in Iowa earlier this week. [Full Article...]
US evacuees freed from coronavirus quarantine, officials fear discrimination
But fear of the disease has led to "unacceptable" treatment of others who work at the March airbase, Dr. Cameron Kaiser, public health officer for Riverside County , said in an open letter to the community. Five evacuees taken to Travis Air Force Base, located between San Francisco and Sacramento, were hospitalized after showing symptoms of the virus but none of those possible cases has been conf... [Full Article...]
Provincial health officer set to give coronavirus update
There are 43,170 globally confirmed cases and there have been 1,108 deaths due to the virus, according to the World Health Organization, which has given the virus the name COVID-19. Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield told RNZ's Morning Report that Healthline would be following up with all the people who had not registered themselves as being in self-imposed isolation. [Full Article...]
Cervical cancer elimination possible within two decades in the US
HPV, the human papillomavirus, causes genital warts in both sexes and cervical cancer in women. Around 13,800 new cases of invasive cervical cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year alone and almost 4.300 will die, according to the American Cancer Society. [Full Article...]
'Covid-19' is official name for coronavirus
The world must "wake up and consider this enemy virus as public enemy number one", WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters, adding the first vaccine was 18 months away . An epidemic prevention staff member checks a person's body temperature before the latter enters the construction site of China Eastern Airlines' production auxiliary in Chengdu Tianfu International Airport, southwes... [Full Article...]
Coronavirus: British patient recovers from illness
Chinese health authorities today confirmed the death toll from coronavirus has passed 1,000 as the United Kingdom scrambles to locate anyone who may be infected. "When the diagnosis was confirmed I was sent to an isolation unit in hospital, where I remain, and, as a precaution, my family was also asked to isolate themselves", he added. [Full Article...]
Coronavirus ‘a very grave threat’ to world, WHO director says
They will provide suggestions on joint prevention and control of the coronavirus outbreak to China and other affected countries in the next step, Mi Feng, an official with the NHC, told a news conference in Beijing. While it's still unclear exactly how the app works, China's National Health Commission said " close contact " refers to anyone who shared the same home, office, classroom or train wi... [Full Article...]